Forgot to display blue badge.

onlyfoolsandparking

Actions certainly do speak louder than words and please do continue to battle, you may well win the war but as I'm sure your aware wars can drag on a long time.


As long as this scandal has no detrimental impact on your health and of course no further negative impact on your good lady then do your research and fight on.

bertiewhite

antandann wrote: »

Yep, maybe I should know when to quit. What a country when a disabled person uses a disabled bay and is fined £250 because they failed to display the badge which shows entitlement to use the bay in question.

Fixed that for you.

The_Deep

You should not quit, this judge may well be no longer competent to perform his/her duties. Your complaint could result in his/her removal from the bench. Read this

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/first-they-came-for-the-jews/

Half_way

Coupon-mad wrote: »

He's wrong.

IMHO Excel v Greenwood was decided correctly, given that the driver had MS and forgetfulness was a feature of his disability and he told them and showed Excel he had a BB in an early appeal. So they 'knew or should have known' about his disability, in his case, and should have cancelled it at the outset.

If you want to find out more about your rights you could email the EHRC and ask if they can support you, or at least can see an argument for appeal, based on your facts and the Equality Act.

An email to them might be worthwhile but if they say they can't see you can argue it further, then you will have to pay it and complain to your MP and the landowner.

You could, if you fancy it, sue the landowner for this loss, given they have a duty to make proper provision under the EA and have allowed their parking scammer to ignore the EA and not make reasonable adjustments. Your case would be better if you complained to the landowner at the time and they did nothing to resolve it because you could sue them for THEIR failure to adhere to the EA.

Costs £35 to sue for £500, which is cheaper than the appeal (£110?) and might put the wind up the landowner enough for them to reimburse you...

Follow the advice above re the landowner, but first

Couple of questions: who is the landowner?
where was the car park?

antandann

Halifax Retail Park Limited is the land owner, I think.

The site was: Charlestown Road Retail Park, Charlestown, Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 6AB.

antandann

It's the Equality Advisory Support Services which deal with individual cases but they can't:

'provide legal advice
provide representation in any legal proceedings
provide advice on court or tribunal procedures once a claim has been issued
advise on the strength of a case or the evidence needed to prove a case
provide advice to employers
provide advice to solicitors and other professional advisors'

So not much support at all in this case. It seems the EA isn't worth the paper it's written on.

beamerguy

antandann wrote: »

It's the Equality Advisory Support Services which deal with individual cases but they can't:

'provide legal advice
provide representation in any legal proceedings
provide advice on court or tribunal procedures once a claim has been issued
advise on the strength of a case or the evidence needed to prove a case
provide advice to employers
provide advice to solicitors and other professional advisors'

So not much support at all in this case. It seems the EA isn't worth the paper it's written on.

I think it's time for our very own Mary Poppins ... AKA coupon-mad
to give you good advice

Fruitcake

All this even though the blue badge scheme does not apply on private land. Whatever was the judge [STRIKE]thinking[/STRIKE] taking?

antandann

The judge we had, apparently started his legal career as a parking adjudicator for 5 years. It's all just a roll of the dice and the courts contradict themselves. Rights in this country are slowly dwindling away and no more so than the rights of disabled people. I think I have to let this go now before it consumes me. The little person loses, what a surprise.

antandann

Fruitcake, apparently the blue badge scheme applies anywhere. Good job Apollo 11 didn't land in a disabled parking bay.

This has really got to me, the hours and hours spent researching and fighting this just to be kicked in the face. Remember when George Osbourne's chaffeur was photographed in a disabled spot, do you think he was fined? One rule for the elite another for the peasants. More cash you have, the more justice you can buy.